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July 02,2009 |
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Beef with Newsweek Buffalo Chart:
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| "Back Story" Graphic Showing "Foreign Holders Of US Bonds" Is Bull! |
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Figure 1: Original Chart was published in Newsweek's June 8 2009 print version. Look at the two pink areas we colored-in above. Luxembourg’s purchase of $106.1 billion is 50% smaller than “All Others” at $156.7 billion. Yet Newsweek makes the $106.1 section larger than the $156.7 section? Why?
(Michael Melford, National Geographic Stock Photos).
With all the sensitivity about the topic of total U.S. Treasury debt, Newsweek should have been up to the task when making a pie chart out of a Buffalo graphic to represent foreign government ownership. Instead they came up with Grade F mystery meat.
The back page chart in Newsweek’s June 8, 2009, print issue, a new section featured in their re-design, was supposed to visualize the proportion of U.S. debt owned by foreign countries. The meat cuts graphic wryly suggests America, via our Buffalo symbol, is being butchered and consumed by foreign government debt.
But look at the two pink areas we colored in. See Figure above. Luxembourg’s purchase of $106.1 billion is 50% smaller than “All Others” at $156.7 billion. Yet Newsweek makes the $106.1 section larger than the $156.7 section?
Bloggers wrote about Newsweek's buffalo chart, in the context of their newly launched design, but apparently didn't notice anything wrong.
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Washington Post Tumble: From Watergate to Salon-Gate
...The story continues says LA Times
by Rhonda Roland Shearer, StinkyJournalism.org 07/03/09
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JOURNALISM'S HIGH TO LOW: Who knew that Washington Post would be so desperate for cash that they would risk being charged with influence peddling? Image above is a screen shot from Watergate, a movie about the famed Washington Post's investigation of government wrongdoing. Now their brand faces becoming a symbol for journalism's moral bankruptcy instead of journalism at its best.
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The Washington Post invites you to a "salon." It sounds so lofty (if you are politician or other luminary) or so expensive (if you are a potential "sponsor" who pays from $25,000 to $250,000). It all depends on which invitation you received, according to today's Los Angeles Times report .
The LA Times writes The Post "abruptly canceled a series of policy dinners Thursday that were to have been underwritten by lobbyists or... Go to full story |
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How long before BBC admits their "Montage" of Obama's Inaugural Address was Ethically Wrong?
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